Professor Katherine Louise Buchanan | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Known for | Research on developmental stress in songbirds |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | behavioural ecology, ornithology |
| Thesis | Song and sexual selection in the sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) (1997[1]) |
| Doctoral advisor | Clive Catchpole |
Katherine Louise "Kate" Buchanan is an avian behavioural ecologist currently working in Deakin University's School of Life and Environment Sciences. Her research focuses on investigating how sexual selection has shaped the evolution of complex songs in birds and ultimately how this is reflected in the evolution of the brain itself.